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From: rbj@uunet.uu.net (Root Boy Jim)
Subject: Re: easy for some
Message-ID: <1991May17.183827.10306@uunet.uu.net>
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References: <6686@male.EBay.Sun.COM>
Date: Fri, 17 May 1991 18:38:27 GMT

In article <6686@male.EBay.Sun.COM> matthew@gizmo.UK.Sun.COM (Matthew Buller - Sun EHQ - MIS) writes:
>
>I am fairly new to unix, and I have a minor question:-
>problem: to extract text between start and end patterns in a file
>
>I have tried to grok the man page for `sed' but no luck.

Try a bit harder. Or buy a book such a "Sed & Awk" from O'Reilly
& Associates. In the meantime, here is the solution:

		sed -n '/pat1/,/pat2/p'
also		sed '/pat1/,/pat2/!d'

Be aware that this will select all non-overlapping ranges,
so you may get more than you want.

Basicly, all the lines in the sed 'program' are executed on
every line of the input file. It's really pretty simple.

However, my eyes glazed over the first
time I read the words "pattern space".
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